Workwear — Capel Street

The saved account records: Terraced two-bay four-storey former house, built c.1710.

The saved account records: Refaced c.1960, with apartments to upper floors and commercial use to ground floor, with replacement timber shopfront.

The saved account records: Replacement hipped slate roof with angled ridge and hip tiles, concealed by rendered parapet with granite coping.

The saved account records: Unpainted rendered walling to upper floors.

Workwear — Capel Street matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: Dublin Civic Trust's 'Survey of Gable-Fronted and Other Early Buildings of Dublin' states, 'The mid twentieth-century façade of this former house and its neighbour at No.87 is likely to conceal an early eighteenth-century house, the roof plan being the only external indicator of this typology. The house had an extensive section of raised and fielded panelling and a staircase of c.1730 removed in 1990.' Together with the neighbouring building, the pair is an interesting addition to the street's historic character. This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.